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Cord Blood Bank

After fertility treatments culminate with a successful pregnancy, couples often look to ways in which they may guard against a child’s future health issues. Saving your child’s "cord blood" through cord blood banking may help in this endeavor.

Private Cord Blood Banking - A private cord blood bank will collect, process, freeze and store your baby’s cord blood for a fee. Private cord blood banking is a way for families to save their baby's cord blood exclusively for their family members.

Cord blood potentially can be used in both transplant medicine and regenerative medicine — areas in which stem cells are used to treat myriad injuries and diseases. The cord blood stem cells are biologically younger and have advantages over other stem cell sources such as bone marrow, including: